John P Moran
Biographic Data
| ID | 4191447 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John P Moran |
| GIVEN NAMES | John P |
| FAMILY NAME | Moran |
| SIGNATURE | MORAN J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kennesaw State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Red Team or Red Herring? Lessons Learned from the Policy Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group
This article examines the activities and controversies of the Policy Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group (PCTEG) within the context of the 1976 “B Team” competitive analysis exercise. While this policy-based red team exercise failed to help the intelligence community (IC) to avoid an intelligence failure in the months preceding the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the external narratives focusing upon it served as a conceptual “red herring” for an accurate …
Tolstoy's Hedgehog
Isaiah Berlin once famously wrote that intellectuals can be split into two types: hedgehogs and foxes. He argues that Leo Tolstoy falls into both camps simultaneously, resulting in a profound tension that provides the fundamental epistemological dilemma of War and Peace. The problem with this oft-quoted argument is that it focuses on only one aspect of the novel—Tolstoy's depiction of the scientific method. In so doing, Berlin overlooks a larger …
The Roots of Terrorist Motivation
Dostoevsky's most famous novel dealing with terrorism is his work The Demons. In this first-ever novel about terrorism, he carefully analyzed the various factors that contributed to the rise of modern terrorism. This article argues that Dostoevsky's subsequent novel, The Brothers Karamazov, is equally important in understanding the motivations of individual terrorists. The author argues that The Brothers Karamazov is fundamentally a novel about t…
Justice or Politics? Criminal, Civil and Political Adjudication in the Newly Independent Baltic States
A major question confronting the newly emergent democracies of post-communist Europe concerned how to deal with individuals implicated in the gross violations of human rights during the communist period – the ‘torturers’. A variety of hypotheses have been put forward by students of Central European politics to explain various approaches to ‘lustration’ (purification) adopted by different countries. However, the three Baltic states – the former So…
Russia’s missing linkŒ Social capital, entrepreneurialism, and economic performance in post-communist Russia
This paper argues that there is a spurious correlation between social capital and economic development in the regions of post-communist Russia. This argument rejects Robert Putnam’s collectivist hypothesis that social capital is the ubiquitous cause of economic growth. Rather, the data presented in this paper indicates that individualistic behavior in the form of entrepreneurialism, has been the prerequisite for growth in post-communist Russia. W…
Imagining Communities in Central Asia
oes a nation's self-image affect the way in which it deals with other nations? D More specifically, is the politics of identity more significant than realist, cultural, linguistic, ideological, or historical factors in determining the positive or negative orientation that one state may hold toward another? The newly independent states of Central Asia provide the perfect crucible for analyzing this question. How do the new states of Azerbaijan, Ta…
Praetorians or professionals? Democratization and military intervention in communist and post‐communist Russia
Approaches to civil‐military relations that rely on a measure of ‘professionalism’ within a military's officer corps appear inadequate when applied to the post‐Soviet Russian military. Corrupt, suffering a catastrophic decline in prestige, riddled with delinquency in the ranks, and apparently lacking political support, and in other ways showing a lack of professionalism and respect, on reasonable expectations the Russian military would by now hav…
The communist torturers of Eastern Europe
One of the most difficult dilemmas that post-authoritarian societies face in the early years of democracy involves the treatment of those authoritarian officials who are guilty of gross violations of human rights. Should a new democracy prosecute and punish or should it forgive and forget its former “torturers”? The process leading to a resolution of this “torturer problem” is complex and often misunderstood. This paper argues that the correlatio…
The communist torturers of Eastern Europe
One of the most difficult dilemmas that post-authoritarian societies face in the early years of democracy involves the treatment of those authoritarian officials who are guilty of gross violations of human rights. Should a new democracy prosecute and punish or should it forgive and forget its former “torturers”? The process leading to a resolution of this “torturer problem” is complex and often misunderstood. This paper argues that the correlatio…
Justice or Politics? Criminal, Civil and Political Adjudication in the Newly Independent Baltic States
A major question confronting the newly emergent democracies of post-communist Europe concerned how to deal with individuals implicated in the gross violations of human rights during the communist period – the ‘torturers’. A variety of hypotheses have been put forward by students of Central European politics to explain various approaches to ‘lustration’ (purification) adopted by different countries. However, the three Baltic states – the former So…
Imagining Communities in Central Asia
oes a nation's self-image affect the way in which it deals with other nations? D More specifically, is the politics of identity more significant than realist, cultural, linguistic, ideological, or historical factors in determining the positive or negative orientation that one state may hold toward another? The newly independent states of Central Asia provide the perfect crucible for analyzing this question. How do the new states of Azerbaijan, Ta…
Praetorians or professionals? Democratization and military intervention in communist and post‐communist Russia
Approaches to civil‐military relations that rely on a measure of ‘professionalism’ within a military's officer corps appear inadequate when applied to the post‐Soviet Russian military. Corrupt, suffering a catastrophic decline in prestige, riddled with delinquency in the ranks, and apparently lacking political support, and in other ways showing a lack of professionalism and respect, on reasonable expectations the Russian military would by now hav…
The communist torturers of Eastern Europe
One of the most difficult dilemmas that post-authoritarian societies face in the early years of democracy involves the treatment of those authoritarian officials who are guilty of gross violations of human rights. Should a new democracy prosecute and punish or should it forgive and forget its former “torturers”? The process leading to a resolution of this “torturer problem” is complex and often misunderstood. This paper argues that the correlatio…
Praetorians or professionals? Democratization and military intervention in communist and post‐communist Russia
Approaches to civil‐military relations that rely on a measure of ‘professionalism’ within a military's officer corps appear inadequate when applied to the post‐Soviet Russian military. Corrupt, suffering a catastrophic decline in prestige, riddled with delinquency in the ranks, and apparently lacking political support, and in other ways showing a lack of professionalism and respect, on reasonable expectations the Russian military would by now hav…
Imagining Communities in Central Asia
oes a nation's self-image affect the way in which it deals with other nations? D More specifically, is the politics of identity more significant than realist, cultural, linguistic, ideological, or historical factors in determining the positive or negative orientation that one state may hold toward another? The newly independent states of Central Asia provide the perfect crucible for analyzing this question. How do the new states of Azerbaijan, Ta…
Russia’s missing linkŒ Social capital, entrepreneurialism, and economic performance in post-communist Russia
This paper argues that there is a spurious correlation between social capital and economic development in the regions of post-communist Russia. This argument rejects Robert Putnam’s collectivist hypothesis that social capital is the ubiquitous cause of economic growth. Rather, the data presented in this paper indicates that individualistic behavior in the form of entrepreneurialism, has been the prerequisite for growth in post-communist Russia. W…
Justice or Politics? Criminal, Civil and Political Adjudication in the Newly Independent Baltic States
A major question confronting the newly emergent democracies of post-communist Europe concerned how to deal with individuals implicated in the gross violations of human rights during the communist period – the ‘torturers’. A variety of hypotheses have been put forward by students of Central European politics to explain various approaches to ‘lustration’ (purification) adopted by different countries. However, the three Baltic states – the former So…
The Roots of Terrorist Motivation
Dostoevsky's most famous novel dealing with terrorism is his work The Demons. In this first-ever novel about terrorism, he carefully analyzed the various factors that contributed to the rise of modern terrorism. This article argues that Dostoevsky's subsequent novel, The Brothers Karamazov, is equally important in understanding the motivations of individual terrorists. The author argues that The Brothers Karamazov is fundamentally a novel about t…
Tolstoy's Hedgehog
Isaiah Berlin once famously wrote that intellectuals can be split into two types: hedgehogs and foxes. He argues that Leo Tolstoy falls into both camps simultaneously, resulting in a profound tension that provides the fundamental epistemological dilemma of War and Peace. The problem with this oft-quoted argument is that it focuses on only one aspect of the novel—Tolstoy's depiction of the scientific method. In so doing, Berlin overlooks a larger …
Red Team or Red Herring? Lessons Learned from the Policy Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group
This article examines the activities and controversies of the Policy Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group (PCTEG) within the context of the 1976 “B Team” competitive analysis exercise. While this policy-based red team exercise failed to help the intelligence community (IC) to avoid an intelligence failure in the months preceding the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the external narratives focusing upon it served as a conceptual “red herring” for an accurate …
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